At 11:54 AM +1200 7/6/02, Marvin Gonzales wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am wondering how many simultaneous connection you can have on a Jetstart
>128K before you start experiencing bandwith degration. IM looking at setting
>a Lan in my garage using my 128K connection maybe with 4 -5 PCs.

Depends on what you're doing. A single machine doing a big download
will take the entire capacity, and you certainly notice that. It's
better than the same thing happening on a modem connection, though --
for some reason, no matter how busy the line is pings still go
through just about as quickly, and interactive stuff such as
telnet/ssh doesn't get affected much.

You could have quite a few people doing regular web browsing, though.
We regularly have three people doing that here, and we don't even
notice each other. That's even with the kid hammering away on
NeoPets where she usually has three browser windows open with two of
them loading pages in the background just about all the time --
she'll often go through 15 - 20 MB of international traffic per hour,
just web browsing. But that's only 30% of the capacity of JetStart,
so no one else even notices. When we shared a modem connection,
NeoPets simply *killed* it for everyone else.

More average users would probably be completely happy with ten or a
dozen people sharing the link. Over the course of a month, the three
of us us about 3% - 8% of the capacity of JetStart. That's two
people who work from home, and an 11 year old.

-- Bruce

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